Our April 2014 Unschooling Resources & Activities

I’m still playing catching up with my learning logs so I didn’t write a lot this month about the things we did- pretty much just made out a list for you! But I’ve included lots of links in case you want to research any resource in more depth.

Highlights of the Month: Went to lots of birthday parties this month. We also attended two plays that were really cute.

But the biggest highlight of the month happened on April 26th. We boarded a plane for London! We were so blessed to spend 17 days traveling across England, Wales and Ireland. Next week’s post will be our top 15 highlights from that trip.

Jared is really into writing lists now (now where did he get that from I wonder?). On Easter, he spread out all his candy and made a long list of all the different categories of candy he received He also wrote many lists of heroes and villains from his Lego catalogs.

Alexa has also written quite a few journal entries in her notebook, too along with several birthday notes to family and friends.

Marvelous Math

Life of Fred: Ice Cream Lessons 1-10 – Kids have all multiplication facts memorized and are working on two digit multiplication as well as 4 digit division. It’s amazing to me at age 7 what they can do only doing formal math type work about 1 1/2 -2 hours every week. Learning math doesn’t have to be painful or take a lot of time!!!!!!!

At Home Fun

Inside: Building with Legos, pretend games

Helped Steve paint our bedroom

Alexa is very into watching music videos on YouTube, listening to music on ITunes, and singing songs from the movie Frozen

We’ve started an on-going project of organizing the entire house in preparation for a garage sale at the end of August. Almost every day of the month, the kids’ and I spent a half hour going through every item in their room and organizing it. So far we have 4 very full garbage bags full for the sale! We still have the playroom upstairs, the basement, and the rest of the bookcases to go through.

Steve grandmother and aunt came for a visit – dinner at our house, dinner at Steve’s parent’s house

Kids were so helpful with getting ready for our big trip: Grooming Jessy and giving her a bath, scrubbing the kitchen floor, vacuuming, cleaning out the microwave, packing, dusting,

Outside: some scooters, taking Jessy for walks around the block, shot bows and arrows, playing “ninja”, helping Steve lay down rocks along the side of the fence, made a home for roll pollys, swinging on swing

Out of the House Activities

Weekly:Library Visits, Grocery Shopping, Church, Gymnastics,

Homeschool Group:

-I lead another morning of Magic Science Tricks with the kids * See the Games section of this learning log for more info

OH BE QUITE!!!!! I STILL LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I POOPED AGAIN!!! WIPE MY BUTT!!!!

Emerson swank

I AM NOT LITTLE ANYMORE MOM!!!!!!!!

christinapilkington

Jody, I’m desperately trying to catch up with comments on this blog and my other social media! I’ve been struggling with deciding whether to keep this blog. I love to post here, but with everything else in my life, I don’t know how I can keep up with this blog and attempt to do other writing that is important to me. But, thanks so much for your encouraging words. I really appreciate your sharing my writing.

Jody

Hey Chris. Much appreciated. I know it can be quite lonely out there, but you fell like a far-away friend. I will be introducing you to my homeschool network next week, so that they can all enjoy your hard work. Jody

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Hi! I'm so happy to have you here. My name is Christina Pilkington. Those are my two wondeful children in the picture above (they're twins!). We daily live a life of passion, adventure and connections.

Our philosophy of learning is to dive into life and take in all that interests and amazes us, on our own time and in our own way. We're particularly interested in travel, community-based learning, and exploring the world.